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Published on: 3/6/2007
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Robert D. ShinglerPresident & Chief Executive Officer
Bob Shingler joined Cypress Communications in July 2005, bringing more than 25 years of global communications experience to the company.Bob has spent his entire career leading technology companies into profitable, highly regarded ventures using a win-win combination of vision, direction and results.
During his career, Bob has lead ventures ranging from venture backed technology startups to national telecom providers.Most recently, he served as President of Broadwing Communications, the nations only all optical network, delivering voice, data and video services to businesses throughout the country.As President, Bob developed and executed an aggressive turnaround strategy which brought the business to breakeven and resulted in the successful sale of the company.
Bob has also served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Albion Connect, an emerging software provider to the telecom industry, President of Steadfast.net, a venture backed technology startup, and Executive Vice President and Deputy CEO of Sonofon A/S, a national cellular communications provider in Denmark.He began his career at BellSouth where he spent 15 years in various executive and senior management positions both in the United States and abroad.
Bob holds an MBA in Finance from Georgia State University and BS in Business and Computer Science from Vanderbilt University.